Connect 1-Semester Access Card for Essentials of Investments
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Author: Zvi Bodie, Alan Marcus, Alex Kane
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 18, Problem 8PS
Conventional wisdom says that one should measure a manager’s investment performance over an entire market cycle. What arguments support this convention? What arguments contradict it?
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